Melting Continues Throughout Next Few Days... Watching the Air Quality

Nice warm, sunny, hazy weather will continue over the next few days as we stay stuck under a high pressure system. The main concern because of that, though, will be the air quality. We will continue to have light winds, therefore not that much mixing, which will allow higher pollution levels as we get into the second half of the week. Air quality is currently hovering around the low moderate range, but could approach the high end of that scale after the rush hour tonight and into the next few days. Be prepared for air quality alert days by the end of the week. Highs through the weekend will be in the upper 30s around 40.

We will see a system move in Friday Night into Saturday -- it will be lacking moisture though. There is a good chance that most of what falls will be a mixture of rain/snow or freezing rain, and that it won't be much.

Steering currents want to put more systems back over our area as we get into next week. I'm on a wait-and-see approach right now about it. I'm still not confident about our "storm" next Monday and Tuesday -- count on probably seeing some moisture, but I'm not sure it will swing up far enough to get most of Minnesota in a good storm that we haven't seen in a while. (I wouldn't mind continuing to see the southland and northeast hit by the storms... I'm ready for no more snow!).

Tonight: Clear with some fog, low around 15. Wednesday: Fog in morning, turning sunny, high around 40. Thursday: Fog in morning, turning sunny, high around 40.